Location
CoLab, COM 100
Start Date
1-5-2025 11:00 AM
Document Type
Poster
Description
Antibiotic resistance is a global health challenge. Students from microbiology have isolated and worked to characterize bacteria from soil samples. “Johnny 5” is a strain of Pseudomonas that inhibits all 8 tester strains when grown competitively, including both gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria. Six plates of “Johnny 5” were chopped and extracted with ethyl acetate. The extracts were tested for antibiotics and were separated using chromatography.
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Isolation of the Antibiotic of “Johnny”
CoLab, COM 100
Antibiotic resistance is a global health challenge. Students from microbiology have isolated and worked to characterize bacteria from soil samples. “Johnny 5” is a strain of Pseudomonas that inhibits all 8 tester strains when grown competitively, including both gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria. Six plates of “Johnny 5” were chopped and extracted with ethyl acetate. The extracts were tested for antibiotics and were separated using chromatography.
Comments
The faculty mentor for this project was Melanie Harvey, Chemistry.